Human rights and machine rights are topics on today's AI Minute.
Transcript
One of the crowning achievements of civilization is the creation of an idea called "human rights." The idea is that there are some things you never do to a person no matter what. Why we have human rights comes from a number of factors. The fact that we are intelligent. The fact that we can empathize. The fact that we're sentient, and can feel pain, and perhaps the fact that we're conscious.
The concern is that, if a computer were to develop some or all of these traits or even seem to develop them, does that ennoble the machine? Does the machine therefore have rights? Or does it in some way undermine the concept of human rights? If there's nothing inherently different or special about people, what would be the basis then of human rights?
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